Re: PSA: publishing new WD of URL spec

On 9/11/14, 12:52 PM, Mark Baker wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:
>>> In which case the WHATWG version wouldn't be "canonical" anymore anyway.
>>
>> It would be for implementers.
>
> Only those implementers that can afford to staff a team to keep up
> with a moving target. That's not all potential implementers.

Mark, the options are to have a team do that or to have a team to 
reverse-engineer the other implementations.  Assuming you want to be 
interoperable with said implementations, of course.

Tracking a well-written spec is _usually_ simpler than 
reverse-engineering other implementations...

-Boris

Received on Thursday, 11 September 2014 17:18:27 UTC